Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development--from Horticulture Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

There are growing calls to adopt more sustainable forms of agriculture that balance the need to increase production with environmental, human health, and wellbeing concerns. Part of this conversation has included a debate on promoting and mainstreaming biodiversity to support more ecologically friendly types of agriculture. This Special Issue seeks to publish research related to agrobiodiversity conversation and mainstreaming. This includes research determining ecosystem services derived from agrobiodiversity, and assessing the potential to promote functional ecological diversity, food, and nutritional security, with a view to transition to more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient agricultural landscapes and food systems in Africa. We will look to showcase how biodiverse cropping systems based on horticultural techniques, strategies, and skills can provide multiple ecosystem services, and how supporting more productive and sustainable farming systems can deliver numerous environmental and health co-benefits including dietary diversity, income, sustainable livelihood outcomes, and economic empowerment, especially for women. Importantly, we will showcase how biodiverse production systems can contribute to sustainable development through genetic and wildlife conservation when mainstreamed in poor regions of the world and so empower and build more resilient societies.

Prof. Dr. Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
Prof. Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Prof. Dr. Roger RB Leakey
Guest Editors

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• biodiversity
• conservation
• cultivar development
• food and nutrition security
• nature-based solutions
• poverty alleviation
• sustainable livelihoods
• sustainable and resilient food systems
• transformative adaptation
• tree crops